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DavidB
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:07 pm
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What started out as the NZ News forum was turned into an International forum to encourage more international discussions and it looks like it has done its job.
I'm wondering if the readers think there is any merit in dividing up the International forum, e.g. by continent or region. Bearing in mind there is enough discussion to keep a Japanese News forum going! 
A suggested division is:
- UK and Europe
- Asia (remembering that the Middle East is West Asia)
- North America
- Central and South America
- Africa
- NZ and Oceania
Depending on the level of discussion, there may be scope to further divide Asia into East/South East Asia and South Asia/Middle East.
Comments?
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Y169Y115Y151
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:49 pm
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I'm all for it. If I'm in a hurry I only have time to read my favourite and that is the Japanese posts so putting them in separate forums will make it so much easier to find them all.
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GeoffreyHansen
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:14 pm
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Personally I feel that New Zealand should be treated like another state and therefore have its own Forum due to its close proximity, similar culture to Australia and the fact that they operate some former Australian Australian stock.
Different Forums for different world regions may be beneficial, perhaps the idea could be trialled but have the Forums listed adjacent to each other on the Forums home page. I do feel that the middle east as well as the region around India should be listed separately from Asia as they have many differences to Eastern Asia.
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PalmerEldritch
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:37 pm
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There probably is enough discussion going for there to be a seperate Japan forum  .
I'm a bit iffy on some of the continental regions though, I have only seen one African related thread, and no Central or South American ones.
Maybe North, Central and South America could simply be the Americas.
Africa should go with the UK and Europe .
Then have one large Asia-Pacific forum with the Middle East, North,South and East Asia, NZ and Oceania.
I think if there's too many forums it'd be too complicated and I have a feeling if the forums were divided purely on continental lines, some would be very quiet.
Thats my 0.02c anyway!
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:04 pm
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| james_c wrote: | I am very very surprise that the response of Japanese news and Japanese stuff gets in this forum. I'd like to know the people in this forum, who else learnt Japanese before? or lived in Japan before? put your hands up?  |
I learnt a tiny bit of Japanese in primary school in grade 4 but I don't remember much besides the numbers from 1 to 10 and some of the standard greetings (the sort of stuff everyone knows).
My main connection with Japan lies with an internet pen-pal with whom I have corresponded with for around three and a half years now. She lives in a suburb of Yokohama and her English is pretty good.
I spent around 5 years learning Indonesian from grade 5 until year 9, and I was much better at it than I was at Japanese, although sadly I have never had the opportunity to correspond with any fluent Indonesian speakers, and after dropping it in year 10 I lost pretty much all that I remember of a language which was not too difficult to pick up.
Occassionally I practice a bit of Vietnamese with a friend of mine, who helps me with pronunciation and accents, whilst I try to study a Lonely Planet Vietnamese phrasebook . Unfortunately I'm not making that much progress at the moment.
I am already bi-lingual (English and Maltese), so I would love to be able to master a third language, preferably an Asian one.
I have never been overseas, much less to Japan, but I would love to go one day.
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:12 pm
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| PalmerEldritch wrote: |
My main connection with Japan lies with an internet pen-pal with whom I have corresponded with for around three and a half years now. She lives in a suburb of Yokohama and her English is pretty good.
I have never been overseas, much less to Japan, but I would love to go one day. |
Cool, I would like to have a 2nd person backing up my translation, just to confirm, so far everything seem to be ok as English version "Japanese TIme" usually publish the news 2-3 days later, mostly have no problem, but I just want to be 100% sure.
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:17 pm
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I also would like to know, how do you all finding "Japanese news" so far?
I do update alot simply because there are alot happening with Japanese railway every week, there is always alot of news, good or bad and interesting railway items that I am hoping to tell others.
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Y169Y115Y151
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:54 am
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I love the Japanese news posts, they have so many trains it's impossible not to find any news somewhere, good or bad.
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dthead
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:58 pm
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It has been great to hear all about any country, and love al the pictures & info from Japan !
Splitting the forum will be one of those " you cannot please everyone" situations by the reasoning you split it. So think about it and split it up, perhaps keeping the popular countries for their own forum ( eg Japan,USA NZ)
Whatever is possible.
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David
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mattb27j
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:27 am
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| james_c wrote: | | I also would like to know, how do you all finding "Japanese news" so far? |
Your contributions regarding Japanese Railways are exceptional James, especially considering the time and effort it must take to track down the news, photos etc and compile them together.
Thanks for all of your Japan posts, between yourself and Riccardo, you've made a Japanese railfan out of me!
Watch out for the mighty Blues in 2008, with Judd, Stevens, Kreuzer, Cloke and Aisake
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:43 am
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| dthead wrote: | It has been great to hear all about any country, and love al the pictures & info from Japan !
Regards,
David |
You know David...
60% of the Japanese news came with pictures, and 40% without, what I tried to do is when the news came in without any picture, I'd do a google search and drag pictures relevent to this news. I did this because not everyone been to Japan before, and for those been to Japan before, they won't necessary visited the place concern. One picture speaks for thousand words, and would help everyone understand. Thanks to most Japanese gunzels are lover of photography and everything can be relatively easy to get. Those ones taken before the 80s are a challenge, I am still trying to get a picture of Japan National railway's ABT operation that was abandon in the 60s. I am guessing there are pictures around, just that no one scanned it.
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:28 am
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| PalmerEldritch wrote: | | james_c wrote: | | I also would like to know, how do you all finding "Japanese news" so far? |
Your contributions regarding Japanese Railways are exceptional James, especially considering the time and effort it must take to track down the news, photos etc and compile them together.
Thanks for all of your Japan posts, between yourself and Riccardo, you've made a Japanese railfan out of me! |
Thanks and glad you like it!
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DavidB
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:42 am
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| james_c wrote: | | Thanks to most Japanese gunzels are lover of photography |
Slightly OT (and I will split this if the discussion keeps going), what do Japanese railfans call themselves? Do they have a term equivalent to trainspotter, gricer, foamer, gunzel, etc?
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David
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